Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State / Justin M. Jacobs.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies on ethnic groups in China | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2016Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (320 pages)Content type:
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  • 9780295806570
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Cover; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Imperial Repertoires in Republican Xinjiang; 2. Collapse of Empires and the Nationalist Threat; 3. Rise of the Ethnopopulists; 4. Raising the Stakes in Nationalist Xinjiang; 5. The Birth Pangs of Chinese Affirmative Action; 6. The Xinjiang Government in Exile; Conclusion; NOTES; GLOSSARY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; S; T; U; W; X; Y; Z; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.
Summary: Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui, Mongols, Kirgiz, and Tajiks, is also the last significant "colony" of the former Qing empire to remain under continuous Chinese rule throughout the twentieth century. By foregrounding the responses of Chinese and other imperial elites to the growing threat of national determination across Eurasia, Justin Jacobs argues for a reconceptualization of the modern Chinese state as a "national empire." He shows how strategies for administering this region in the late Qing, Republican, and Communist eras were molded by, and shaped in response to, the rival platforms of ethnic difference characterized by Soviet and other geopolitical competitors across Inner and East Asia. This riveting narrative tracks Zinjiang political history through the Bolshevik revolution, the warlord years, Chinese civil war, and the large-scale Han immigration in the People's Republic of China, as well as the efforts of the exiled Xinjiang government in Taiwan after 1949 to claim the loyalty of Xinjiang refugees. -- from dust jacket
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Cover; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Imperial Repertoires in Republican Xinjiang; 2. Collapse of Empires and the Nationalist Threat; 3. Rise of the Ethnopopulists; 4. Raising the Stakes in Nationalist Xinjiang; 5. The Birth Pangs of Chinese Affirmative Action; 6. The Xinjiang Government in Exile; Conclusion; NOTES; GLOSSARY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; S; T; U; W; X; Y; Z; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

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Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui, Mongols, Kirgiz, and Tajiks, is also the last significant "colony" of the former Qing empire to remain under continuous Chinese rule throughout the twentieth century. By foregrounding the responses of Chinese and other imperial elites to the growing threat of national determination across Eurasia, Justin Jacobs argues for a reconceptualization of the modern Chinese state as a "national empire." He shows how strategies for administering this region in the late Qing, Republican, and Communist eras were molded by, and shaped in response to, the rival platforms of ethnic difference characterized by Soviet and other geopolitical competitors across Inner and East Asia. This riveting narrative tracks Zinjiang political history through the Bolshevik revolution, the warlord years, Chinese civil war, and the large-scale Han immigration in the People's Republic of China, as well as the efforts of the exiled Xinjiang government in Taiwan after 1949 to claim the loyalty of Xinjiang refugees. -- from dust jacket

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